Subject: Re: Little doubts with "if" clause
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 02:19:29 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3216248368595666@naggum.net>
* Coby Beck
| Advised by whom? IF looks right to me....
Me, I guess, but you would probably not have seen that, kill-files being
rather coarse-grained devices to block one's view to shocking truths. Go
look up the article I wrote on conditionals if you can read this.
The lack of an implicit progn in the if form is a hint that cond, which
has an implicit progn for each branch, would be more appropriately used
for bodies with side-effects and if for expressions.
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